i think civil war break up you can hear a lot of. you know the. voice comes across nothing and then you supposed. to. supposed national supposed national police force and just by the very limited points you can see that very very few can do and you have this creation of a federation of the western militias a few days ago one hundred militias in the western libya and that really does seem to be a step on the road to the breakup of libya into at least two western they say if not more. american and afghan officials are in secret peace talks with the taliban according to president hamid karzai the afghan leader described the negotiations as a breakthrough and the war that's dragged on for more than ten years but our military contributor says karzai continues to avoid the real issues standing between afghanistan and prosperity. interview to

a wall street journal was the most important public relations event for the president of afghanistan it was rather strange when mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former president. referred to afghanistan as the leading. in full display of correctness mr karzai was carefully spared. from answering two most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and the narco aggression there. leading factors there precipitated the implosion of afghanistan from within.

healthy shopper assessing their buying organic food from russia supermarket shelves may need to think again was vague standards for a labeling product buyers often don't know what they are getting but farmers are making a change for the better paving the way for russia to become a provider or damage suit for the rest of the world reports. to feast for the eyes but not necessarily for your stomach and many would be shocked to find out what exactly makes its way onto our plates. if only people knew what their sausage is made of or how their yogurt was bottled they would be very upset and would stop buying anything at all of the shops but. perhaps that's why there is a growing demand among people in russia's main cities make products unfortunately for them russian shops have little to offer what is sold as eco and bio friendly is often far from it your product is even by abroad as have found an issue in the

market i think starboard environment and you fashion for a healthy lifestyle. there are no legal standards also defied labeling schemes for organic produce in russia. so individual farmers define it in their own way but it's really on every farmer's own conscience. alexander is a computer programmer who turned to working the land what started as a hobby is now a mini industry with several farms in the moscow region covering livestock fish vegetables and herbs he's even aiming for his first harvest of black caviar from sturgeon as he breeds not far away from moscow if you're ever on the golf course big business simply can't afford to produce ecologically clean product they use pesticides to boost growth and lower the cost of everything i do is pure without a drop of chemicals you need to this new market in moscow had said and ambitious task to offer its customers and unprecedented grain. eco products what started as

an attempt to bring organic food to the masses turned out to be almost impossible in reality no russian farmers can produce all this let alone in quantities needed for a large city so anything truly eco and bio friendly remains a luxury only a few people in russia can afford despite soaring prices for anything organic individual farmers find it hard to make their businesses profitable beaten by the supermarkets with their cheap recessed food but he said founded and online organic store trying to help small farm a survivor and at the same time improve the quality of life while food conscious customers just like came. initially we simply wanted healthy stuff for our families and friends now we hand pick each person involved in the production of meat or bread that we sell so that we know where the food is coming from and the business is growing but. some go as far as saying russia with its plenty of land could

eventually become an organic food basket for the whole world or very few in nine hundred fourteen russia third half of the world and we could easily get back to that but the state needs to start investing in agriculture. and while city dwellers are only starting to go back to their roots milledge is in russia's most organic far away corners are probably unaware of the treasures they could offer and russian klondyke to be discovered. r.t. scary. russia and china anger at a large section of the international community when they jointly vetoed a u.n. security council resolution condemning president ass's regime in syria is just the most recent example of the two standing largely on their own and the international arena artie's resident any or or a hardness went to ask people whether the two countries should be feared and why.

if you believe the news media you should fear china and russia this week let's talk about why if they wanted to china could wipe out the us in probably three minutes but anyone with an atomic bomb could true so why china in particular chinese people are very dangerous why what has made you think bad has have you ever been personally threatened by a chinese person no so why do you feel that way. they know kung fu i don't think were in the good of relationship with them so should we fear them is that going to make relations better and we should fear of them i think they should fear us i think there's a legitimate concerns about human rights there and i think we need to pay attention to what are their legitimate human rights issues everywhere don't we have them here in the us sure i think a different scale there but yes we do have another places when there's there was stuff to find out so well that is

a step to find out so well that will screw nobody's going to give us someone who would be but we're participating in that why is it their fault because they're acting smartly. it's hard to resist last year i was in china i wasn't at all i don't think you should be i don't think we should run our country like china or russia but i think there are some ideas and some kind of plans they have that help their economy so maybe we can learn from a so that's more amul aiding and looking up to rather than fearing but we're taught to fear them why do you think that it because fear keeps you in control if you are afraid it's easier to be manipulated by somebody telling you to do something rather than questioning what they say everybody is freak scared to do because the news and old the media makes people scare them specially in america why china and russia in particular are we made to feel scared because they're very powerful that's what we

think ultimately they're going to be a part of the growth picture and they need us as much as we need them so why are people scared of them why are they painted in this horrible picture it's always the same so maybe we should get to know them invite them over for coffee like that whether or not you believe the world should fear china and russia the bottom line to me is the old adage those who live in glass houses should never throw a stone. and later this hour a learn more about the magic heart of syria. the latest spectacular as arcana is currently on in moscow and in just a few minutes our team spotlight talks to craig cohen from syria disallow russia about what the crowds can expect. that after the headlines very shortly here on r.t. .

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believe. the back here whether it's here is a reminder of the top stories international powers are in deadlock over syria the u.s. and its allies are piling on the pressure while china combines with russia's push for a negotiated solution by sending a top diplomat to damascus. labia hold a referendum on whether russian should be out official language emotion which is likely to fail was put forward by the russian minority which represents a surge of the population but complains of state discrimination. and european

impartiality is under scrutiny at a number of schools accused of brainwashing your values into children they claim to teach multiculturalism but tied to control the curriculum raises questions about how much propaganda is being taught. that sonar to spotlight talks to create cohen the man who brought the world famous. to russia. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

hello again oh welcome to spotlight the interview show i'm proud to say i'm now bernard and today my guest is craig. is back in russia with a brand news out of college. it runs in one of moscow's largest venues the brand kremlin palace which we acquired a serious mexico last summer i was at a comic premiere in new york in the radio city hall and was a warmly welcome by the public something even call it the best suited to sell a show ever so what makes arthritis so unique we're asking the man who brought the famous service company to russia founder and vice chairman of citigroup sun a russian bank craig called. the world famous circuit you so late was founded in the nineteen eighties by two street artists give money birthday and danielle good cheer what they came up with was a very special kind of entertainment circus theater and street before months all

together in the most impressive way the combination of odds proved a success eventually lead into the canadian entertainment company audiences worldwide cirque de soleil has expanded dramatically since its creation it has received a bunch of international awards and has performed on the world's most prestigious stages right now its brand new show its arcana is on at the stade gremlin palace moscow is only the second city in the world to welcome the latest installment along with new york's radio city music hall the largest show cirque du soleil has ever traveled with. cost fifty seventy then use dollars to produce people. from all over the country flock to the very heart of russia's capital to enjoy the fairy tale spirit that canadian company has brought about.

craig great to have you here thank you for coming by well first of all is it true did did did do you believe that dot com is the greatest show that sort of this they ever had then what makes it unique what should we expect what surprises i think why it's a great show here is because of the venue there's a venue because the venue so there was a guy then you know happening in the inside the kremlin well everything happiness on the ground kremlin is a great show. really right but i think the combination of the show which is a fifty seven million dollars production seventy five artists one hundred people backstage and eight hundred people working the whole the whole kremlin combined with that theater which is the biggest leader in europe and the only two places in the world could take a radio city music hall in the kremlin that's what makes it a great show they actually are fantastic as a matter of fact you mentioned anything happening inside the kremlin well actually to to to be great well probably so this it mean that it's hard to get access to get

the permission to doing it and side the actual kremlin walls wasn't right. i've been doing business here for twenty years so i know and i think ultimately you know it's i don't think business anywhere in the world is easy i think it's just different here you have to build relationships do what you say you're going to do there is a lot of paperwork mounds and mounds and mounds of hard it's hard but you know anything worth doing is takes a lot of work this but i think it's fun and as far as well as that is staged by one of the most respected opera directors flounce. yes and the music was written by australian nick little morgan who used to work with john and i said so this would be let's rock opera it's a type of rock opera it's not your classic rock opera why classic is jesus christ superstar which is a great rock which is

a classic it is different it's different it's like godspell this and you know this is based off circus arts with incredible theater incredible design great music it's an invented language so yeah i spent something like that so everyone understands it no one understands and and it's it's what makes the essence of searches so they were invented languages it's something like you you have a link where you know that you have a linguist stuff i don't care what you do well when i had a guy who invented it they did brussels is like i want to do it but if i want to see chess that is you're like yeah i'm not like that this is a little bit more bizarre. you mentioned seventy five artists and you said if i want to see how many of them are russians thirty percent thirty percent right bit the russians are a strong contingent in this show mainly mainly acrobats about how important is russian talent for for the suit is silly and it and for western circus in general

because i'd be las vegas a couple of times on circus i mean you get your heart of them russians moment from the sofa. and out of each are sure all russians so important fulfill for the service is so important they have incredible training coming out of the gymnastic programme of the circus program and they're the best in the world in trap and banking game in hand balancing and so for circus arts they're the best and that's why there's such a large contingency of russians and ukrainians and kazakhstan is in search of a worldwide in this show specifically they're coming home so they're excited so since so the russian circus it's sort of longer like the bolshoi ballet i mean it's a brand and some of them some somebody from from the moscow circus cook and you can just walk into a circus wherever i've been where we even when we did we had more yes we'll say here i am and then they have the yard and it's not that simple i mean it's not that easy there's a huge database and there's lots of culture lots of competition but in general the

russians are superior talent too because of this is because of the sporting background or where they are mature as circus i think it's a combination i think it's a sporting background and i think it's the discipline i think it's their ability to always continue to get better and once like enter sort of so they move from sports to artists and so it's the blend of the two which is being a sportsman and an artist that's what the really really was really great i'll be frank with you i've never been in the suit. because i'm a kid was too small i don't i look like sure that you get a shot at sag thank you but. i've seen it i've seen on television and a friend of mine went to went to see it live i think last year in moscow and he said well it's not a circus anymore he said the less used before it's it's like a show you know it's like a like a more like a musical so now you talk about acrobats once more so is the acrobatic thing still

in the center it's i think it's the d.n.a. of the way it started. it is because what i see on television it's usually fantastic acrobatics but people say it looks more like a show like a musical now i think it's everything it's a new genre so it has at the center is obviously acrobats which is the wow moments where your hands start to sweat your palms your hands but the sets are incredible in the show and they look amazing at the chroma theater just just really beautiful and you'll see that you know shortly how different is that staging a circus on stage i mean a circus is something in the middle when people all around and he have a stage you have backstage you have all that it is easy is it a lot different it's different and i think one of the thing was the same in new york city right it was the same in new york city one of the things that's why the show is a very expensive show because you have to fill an enormous stage with

a lot of activity and it's very very different so the audience is slightly larger than a traditional circus and the ceiling is losing the ceiling is actually very high and the room and yes and it's incredibly high end and so that's why that's why we did it when we started to whatever and said oh you can never do it at home and later that was one of the reasons because we know it was a great stage the show was specially created for new york city and moskos why why was moscow chosen the only other city new york to save the show and then another because it was the only place where you can find the the building i mean this well that's that's one of the reasons but not the only reason is the only two large large stages in the world that could fit a show this big yes that's it really yeah absolutely well the outdoors outdoors what we what we're prosector so you want. to be low i mean you can do that instant some of that but we don't do a lot we don't do a lot of shows and i would doors like that that's number one number two is. the

business that we set up here you know so it's a special business and we want to bring some plane to russia that the russian audiences deserve and. i think they did the big there's a great audience here i think they're very well educated in arts and entertainment and so for the artists it's a wonderful place to perform is the show exactly the same in moscow than in your city i mean it's the same thing it's very very similar some of the yes but it's a bit different because of because of this stage already because of the staging a slightly different the acts are very similar but in general the show is almost identical and it has that same high end quality that we had in new york when we start the cast this is the same cat here and there that would mean the artists here and there there's been some minor changes but the quality of the cast of the same and they're excited to to open up on us on set and how many. shows are you going to stage in moscow i mean did you have the number two or were

actually performing eighty times eighty so we have a new york you had we had more than eighty or so a lot more than a but two actually. every night of the mondays perform in the kremlin theater three minutes in the kremlin so we took that here every night no one else is in it what do what if putin or medvedev won something well let me in congress throw a party and there's a recent. story i read that i think scares me but you know we have a well because you know the crew palace actually was built and actually used to the first i was there as i don't remember the congress it was i mean it's fairly brazen after all that i would say you know basically it of course is the president's leader and the president wants to use it or he can use of leader we would help entertain maybe some of his party yes. but you know it's. i don't think that's going to happen if it does what will do with it so if the

ruling russian elite once the place they're welcoming and i think there's other theater you know we're there we are just. are you planning to stage or elsewhere are only moscow new york that's moscow that's yeah. there's your positive yeah yeah and i don't think you know this is the one time it's coming to moscow and you know the odds of it coming back are going to be you know it'll continue and new york for a couple of years but it's it was done for these two citizen who says craig vice chairman of. russian french spotlight will be back should we after the break so stay with us we'll continue this in. no time.

so designed to keep you close in your. world as a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like that in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown and the stress sort of building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose

remember from marilyn manson and metallica slayer to songs to be angel of death and raining blood to kill the enemy going through war coming up here into iraq coming into baghdad. johnny put the body sort of for just a rock n roll band it was fitting for the job we were doing. what come back to spotlight nerve and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is craig and vice chairman served russian branch creek well i'll continue stick to the subject of my family going to

caesar's just like it's my so this is my son who's twelve and one of the interviews you said that maybe maybe i'm mistaken some of your kind said that this is a con that is an adult shell well not not an adult child but mainly for adults right i mean there is a true it's a like when you see adults mainly i mean what's the what's the age for from which you you i would say if you look at the russian short. switches target you know two families and it has been for a very very long time searches so it was always targeted to an adult population own and from the very beginning a very big as it was going to be was a kind of in general and so when you say i don't you mean you mean like starting where fifteen twenty thirty when you become an adult. when how are you going to what. i'm not yet and i mean and i don't know if you ask me i think you know what we're starting at sixteen above and this is not as you are there any reason other than it is. an art form that was developed for ten percent of our

audience are children children is like below sixteen like like. sixteen and other non-users are ok teenagers are fine i think you know at twelve years old or to eleven or ten is five below ten i don't i don't think it's a good use of people's money to i didn't think you're a hundred percent adult because you're going to because your kid is also twelve or ten something you know i have a total of ten year old he has a sister so so we're both teenagers that will remember it but we will become adults when out kids become adults and we become grandmothers then we then we have you know ok i don't think so. then what about the tent and now you staging it i mean stage you're in the kremlin grand palace but but the tent do the offices miss i mean the tent the sadness for you know i mean i mean like being us i think it's a different type of feeling for the artist so this show is made for.